Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Health Care in Panama

Panama health care is based on Germany´s healthcare where everyone had healthcare.Its provided by the government and free which is totally opposite from what we have in United States,where everyone has to pay for their own health insurance. Today I was at the health center in Soloy where I was suprised by the knowledge that nurses have. In one emergencey room that serves 23,000 of patients there was only one doctor, one nurse, one nursing tech and one nursing student in her last semester of nursing school. I was pleasently suprised with the knowledge that all of them have. For 4 hours the emergency room was left with only 1 nursing student and doctor I was impressed with the knowledge that this nursing student had. She took care of all patients and documented every move that she did in the patient´s chart, and also documented in her own records every patient that she took care of. Her knowledge and her qualifications for me where much higher then the ones that we have in United States.

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